Ways to Protect Yourself from the Swine Flu Virus
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way. The Swine Influenza virus spreads mainly through infected body fluids being inhaled by a non-infected person. Contact with the mucus membranes where the barrier of the skin is not as thick will also increase chances of being infected.
The Swine Flu is normally contained to animals, and has regular outbreaks in pigs, original cases started with people in close contact with pigs and pig materials. Only after the Swine Flu virus has infected one or more human beings in contact with pigs does it begin to mutate and become the Swine Influenza Virus A (H1N1), which is directly transmittable between human hosts in the ways previously mentioned.